Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thatcher, Margaret

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Seabury, David

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Herbert Agar

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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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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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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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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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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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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

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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