Motivational Quotes

Truth

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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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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 is its own reward.

Plato

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Herbert, Frank

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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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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