Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

William Shakespeare

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)

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shaw, George Bernard

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

10.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

11.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

13.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

Scott Westerfeld

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

18.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

21.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Zola, Emile

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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.

43.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.