Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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

Brandes, George

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

Lee, Bruce

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kahlil Gibran

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Confucius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Howard, Vernon

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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