Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Twain, Mark

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Aristotle

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Scott Westerfeld

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Voltaire

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.