Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Granville, Joseph E.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Fuller, Max

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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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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Confucius

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

Baldwin, James

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lennon, John

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

Blake, William

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

Blake, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.