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

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

Kersha, Al

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Penn, William

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Blake, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Emre, Yumus

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George