Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Hesse, Hermann

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Voltaire

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Lennon, John

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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

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Hesiod

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

Kersha, Al

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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 always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

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