Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Farnham, Eliza

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Mann, Horace

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

West, Jessamyn

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Zola, Emile

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Diderot, Denis

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Howard, Vernon

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord