Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

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

Mamet, David

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Aristotle

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Emre, Yumus

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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 ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gide, Andre

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

Rogers, Will

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.