Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Epictetus

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

Strachey, Lionel

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

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

Herbert, Frank

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Aristotle

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Butler, Samuel

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.