Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is its own reward.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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)

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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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 stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Blake, William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hesse, Hermann

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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