Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Russell, Utterly

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.

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

Mark Twain

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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 generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, 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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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rosten, Leo

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.