Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Farnham, Eliza

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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

Malcolm X

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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]

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