Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Darrow, Clarence

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.

Real Live Preacher

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kersha, Al

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Rosten, Leo

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Berlin, Irving

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