Motivational Quotes

Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

West, Jessamyn

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

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Whately, Richard

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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 more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.