Motivational Quotes

Truth

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Edith Sitwell

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Lennon, John

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.