Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

2.

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

3.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

4.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

5.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

6.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

8.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

9.

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

Twain, Mark

10.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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

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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

13.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

15.

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

Norris, Frank

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

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

Davies, Robertson

20.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

21.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Confucius

24.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Carrel, Alexis

26.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

27.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

28.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

29.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

30.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

31.

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

32.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.