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

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

Einstein, Albert

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Penn, William

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

Stone, W. Clement

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Malcolm X

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Confucius

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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?