Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kahlil Gibran

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kersha, Al

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Galileo Galilei

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah