Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Joubert, Joseph

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Voltaire

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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 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 truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Epictetus

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Seabury, David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth and virtue conquer.

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