Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Voltaire

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Kersha, Al

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Hare, J. C.