Motivational Quotes

Truth

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Voltaire

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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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 is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Clarence Darrow

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce