Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Dickens, Charles

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Confucius

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

Merzel, David

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Blake, William

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Valery, Paul

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 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'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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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 fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare