Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Confucius

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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 the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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.