Motivational Quotes

Truth

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dickinson, Emily

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Herbert, Frank

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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Mamet, David

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Adler, Alfred

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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