Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Mann, Horace

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

10.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

11.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Confucius

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

35.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Low, Albert

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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 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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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