Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Darrow, Clarence

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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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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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Kersha, Al

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Butler, Samuel

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Lennon, John

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?