Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mark Twain

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Rosten, Leo

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mamet, David

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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)

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Lennon, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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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 is not determined by majority vote.