Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Brandes, George

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

Seabury, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Malcolm X

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Herbert, Frank

11.

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 always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

14.

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

Bible

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Epictetus

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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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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 are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

37.

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

Blake, William

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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)

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Mann, Horace

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman