Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Darrow, Clarence

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Fuller, Thomas

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Confucius

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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 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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gide, Andre

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.