Motivational Quotes

Truth

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Herbert, Frank

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Berlin, Irving

10.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

11.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Berenson, Bernard

13.

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

Bible

14.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Seabury, David

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Richards, R. Scott

24.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 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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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.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Kahlil Gibran

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.