Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Richards, R. Scott

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

13.

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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Butler, Samuel

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Blake, William

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Penn, William

28.

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

Brandes, George

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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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.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

41.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Kersha, Al

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.