Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Mamet, David

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

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Confucius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rosten, Leo

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Norris, Frank

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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