Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Renard, Jules

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Stone, W. Clement

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William