Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bradley, Francis H.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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]

Bible

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Penn, William

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Renard, Jules

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Adler, Alfred

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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