Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

10.

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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Bible

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Barnes, Leonard

18.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

21.

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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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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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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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

35.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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