Motivational Quotes

Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kersha, Al

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Fuller, Max

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Valery, Paul

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

Blake, William

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Rosten, Leo

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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