Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Butler, Samuel

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

11.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

William Shakespeare

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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.