Motivational Quotes

Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Luther, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Hesse, Hermann

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

11.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edith Sitwell

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lennon, John

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Confucius

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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.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

45.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Rogers, Will

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.