Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Middleton, Owen C.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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 is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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