Motivational Quotes

Truth

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wilder, Billy

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kersha, Al

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Berlin, Irving

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

W. Somerset Maugham