Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Malcolm X

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

Bible

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Pancoast, Mal

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, Joseph E.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Lennon, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Confucius

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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.

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Clarence Darrow

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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 its own reward.

Plato