Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Truman, Harry S

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Aristotle

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Bible

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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