Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Granville, Joseph E.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Lennon, John

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Luther, Martin

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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