Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Malcolm X

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

Aristotle

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hesiod

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lee, Bruce

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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