Motivational Quotes

Truth

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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

Blake, William

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

Kersha, Al

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Baldwin, James

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Epictetus