Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Seabury, David

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Twain, Mark

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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

35.

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.

Bohr, Niels

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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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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert