Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Confucius

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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

16.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Truman, Harry S

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Berlin, Irving

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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.