Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Brandes, George

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 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

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Gordimer, Nadine

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Truman, Harry S

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lennon, John

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Blake, William

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Dickinson, Emily

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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