Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Truth

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Cronkite, Walter

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Kahlil Gibran

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Blake, William

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Max

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Bach, Richard

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Mark Twain

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.