Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wilder, Billy

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

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Voltaire

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Camus, Albert

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott Westerfeld

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth is more important than the facts.