Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bible

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

Herbert Agar

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

18.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

24.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

28.

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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Epictetus

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

44.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

45.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

46.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig