Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Blake, William

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Herbert Agar

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

12.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

13.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

14.

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

Lee, Bruce

15.

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

Bible

16.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Baldwin, James

20.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lennon, John

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

35.

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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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Middleton, Owen C.

44.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig