Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Butler, Samuel

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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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

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Aristotle

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

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emre, Yumus

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.