Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hare, J. C.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Truman, Harry S

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Gide, Andre

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Bible

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Twain, Mark

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.