Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Valery, Paul

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Baldwin, James

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Epictetus

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Butler, Samuel