Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lewis, C. S.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Kersha, Al

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Rogers, Will

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Hesiod

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hare, J. C.

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson