Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Penn, William

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

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

10.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

12.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Voltaire

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

Scott Westerfeld

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

22.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Hare, J. C.

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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.