Motivational Quotes

Truth

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

- Wright, Orville

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rosten, Leo

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Epictetus

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William