Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Hill, Napoleon

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

10.

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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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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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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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Confucius

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Voltaire

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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