Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Valery, Paul

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Diderot, Denis

11.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Penn, William

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Truman, Harry S