Motivational Quotes

Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hare, J. C.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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 people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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