Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Brandes, George

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Twain, Mark

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.