Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Norris, Frank

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Seabury, David

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Blake, William

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Rogers, Will

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Einstein, Albert

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Aristotle

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Churchill, Winston

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Herbert, Frank