Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Balfour, Arthur James

Best Quotes about 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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

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

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

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Gide, Andre

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Aristotle

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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