Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Gide, Andre

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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 first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Baldwin, James

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Will

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Dickinson, Emily

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David