Motivational Quotes

Truth

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

11.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epictetus

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

24.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

William Shakespeare

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

30.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kersha, Al

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.