Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Balfour, Arthur James

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

14.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

20.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Farnham, Eliza

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Pindar

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

36.

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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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.