Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Smith, Joseph F.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Brandes, George

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

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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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