Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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)

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Strachey, Lionel

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin