Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Renard, Jules

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

Farnham, Eliza

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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

Carrel, Alexis

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bach, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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 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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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