Motivational Quotes

Truth

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hesiod

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Stone, W. Clement

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

43.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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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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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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