Motivational Quotes

Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Renard, Jules

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

Rostand, Jean

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

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

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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Bible

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

Valery, Paul

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

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

Lennon, John

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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See it like it is!