Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Aristotle

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Lewis, C. S.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Confucius

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.