Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fuller, Thomas

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

10.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

11.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

12.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

17.

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

Blake, William

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

25.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

27.

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

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

29.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

30.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

31.

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

Richards, R. Scott

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

34.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

35.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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 is its own reward.

Plato

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emre, Yumus

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

46.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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