Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Butler, Samuel

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Voltaire

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

10.

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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Davies, Robertson

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Rogers, Will

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.