Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Cronkite, Walter

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Malcolm X

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Bach, Richard

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

30.

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

Blake, William

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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]

Bible

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Blake, William

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

Blake, William

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

William Shakespeare

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles