Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true belongs to me!

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Voltaire

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Aristotle

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Diderot, Denis

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Brandes, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

25.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Gide, Andre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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.