Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Bible

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Brandes, George

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

Renard, Jules

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Blake, William

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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