Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Howard, Vernon

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham