Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Brandes, George

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

Blake, William

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

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Confucius

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.