Motivational Quotes

Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tom Bissell

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Renard, Jules

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Mamet, David

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Butler, Samuel

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Bible

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Twain, Mark

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.