Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

- Bohr, Niels

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Zola, Emile

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

12.

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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blake, William

16.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Russell, Utterly

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

32.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Richards, R. Scott

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

46.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

48.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Kahlil Gibran

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham