Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Kersha, Al

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Rosten, Leo

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Renard, Jules

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 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

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

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 wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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