Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Hamilton, Sir William

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Confucius

13.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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.

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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.

Pindar

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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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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Renard, Jules

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.