Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hill, Napoleon

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Twain, Mark

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Mark Twain

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles