Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Blake, William

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Camus, Albert

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales