Motivational Quotes

Truth

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Zola, Emile

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Russell, Utterly

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Blake, William

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Butler, Samuel

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.