Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gordimer, Nadine

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Howard, Vernon

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

10.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Camus, Albert

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Mark Twain

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

28.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rogers, Will

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

43.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.