Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Whately, Richard

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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 is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Kersha, Al

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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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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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann