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

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Malcolm X

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stone, W. Clement

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Blake, William

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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 more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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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

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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