Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Hesse, Hermann

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Hamilton, Sir William

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Renard, Jules

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lennon, John

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Luther, Martin

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Rosten, Leo

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