Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Stone, W. Clement

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

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

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Berlin, Irving

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig