Motivational Quotes

Truth

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

10.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Blake, William

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Epictetus

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

Middleton, Owen C.

35.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Malcolm X

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Rostand, Jean

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.