Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Malcolm X

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

Zola, Emile

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Blake, William

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

Rosten, Leo

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Birmingham, Wayne