Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Confucius

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Davies, Robertson

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Mamet, David

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Howard, Vernon

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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.

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Augustine, St.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish