Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Davies, Robertson

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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]

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