Motivational Quotes

Truth

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Penn, William

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Low, Albert

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Barnes, Leonard

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.