Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Confucius

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier