Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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 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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Bach, 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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Gide, Andre

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth never hurts the teller.