Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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)

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

Darrow, Clarence

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Strachey, Lionel

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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

Berenson, Bernard

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Voltaire

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.