Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seabury, David

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

Davies, Robertson

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Zola, Emile

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Malcolm X

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Scott Westerfeld

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.