Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Kersha, Al

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Walters, Hellmut

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Butler, Samuel

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Pascal, Blaise

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pindar

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bible

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Baldwin, James

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

Malcolm X

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Kersha, Al

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Truman, Harry S

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.