Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

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

Emre, Yumus

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Scott Westerfeld

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Baldwin, James

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Augustine, St.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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 is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Herbert Agar

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, 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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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