Motivational Quotes

Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lowell, James Russell

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Brandes, George

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hare, J. C.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Kersha, Al

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Berenson, Bernard

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Zola, Emile

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.