Motivational Quotes

Truth

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Kahlil Gibran

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Luther, Martin

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Bible

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Augustine, St.

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.