Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.