Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fuller, Thomas

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Herbert, Frank

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Darrow, Clarence

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Augustine, St.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Blake, William

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

Barnes, Leonard

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.