Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Farnham, Eliza

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Emre, Yumus

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

William Shakespeare

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Luther, Martin

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

Balfour, Arthur James

10.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

16.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Clarence Darrow

19.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bach, Richard

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

22.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

28.

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

29.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

33.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

34.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman