Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Emre, Yumus

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Russell, Utterly

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Truman, Harry S

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Gibran, Kahlil