Motivational Quotes

Truth

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Rosten, Leo

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Darrow, Clarence

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Confucius

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

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

Voltaire

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Mark Twain

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Aristotle

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Pindar

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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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