Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Norris, Frank

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

11.

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

12.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Dickens, Charles

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

18.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

19.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Howard, Vernon

21.

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

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Dickinson, Emily

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Darrow, Clarence

42.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Aristotle

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

Butler, Samuel