Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Mark Twain

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Herbert, Frank

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Hesse, Hermann

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