Motivational Quotes

Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Berlin, Irving

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Brandes, George

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emre, Yumus

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Malcolm X

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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