Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Churchill, Winston

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek