Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

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)

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Voltaire

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Mark Twain

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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

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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

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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