Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Baldwin, James

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

Fuller, Max

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

Dickens, Charles

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Aristotle

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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 not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Bach, Richard

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Voltaire

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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