Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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)

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Kahlil Gibran

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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