Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

4.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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 wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

12.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Lee, Bruce

14.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

17.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

18.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

19.

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

Clarence Darrow

20.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

21.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

23.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Confucius

27.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

29.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

30.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

31.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

32.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

33.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

34.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

35.

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

36.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

38.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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