Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Luther, Martin

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Whately, Richard

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Renard, Jules

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

Mamet, David

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

Bohr, Niels

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

William Shakespeare

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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.