Motivational Quotes

Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pancoast, Mal

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kersha, Al

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howard, Vernon

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.