Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Russell, Utterly

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Epictetus

10.

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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

12.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

31.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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