Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth alone wounds.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Mamet, David

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

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

Farnham, Eliza

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

10.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

11.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Confucius

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

19.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

27.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

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

Fuller, Max

29.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

32.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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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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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.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar