Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Twain, Mark

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle