Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

- West, Jessamyn

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gide, Andre

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Malcolm X

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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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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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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.

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

Herbert, Frank

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tom Bissell

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Brandes, George

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill