Motivational Quotes

Truth

See it like it is!

- Cohen, Herb

Best Quotes about Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Seabury, David

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

14.

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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Brandes, George

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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 persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

22.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Mamet, David

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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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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Emre, Yumus

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

43.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Scott Westerfeld

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.