Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Darrow, Clarence

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)

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Confucius

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich 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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Lennon, John

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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 is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Hall, Calvin S.