Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Malcolm X

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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 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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Confucius

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Rosten, Leo

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bible

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Truman, Harry S

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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.