Motivational Quotes

Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

- Luther, Martin

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Smith, Joseph F.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank