Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Scott Westerfeld

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Malcolm X

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

Lennon, John

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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