Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Einstein, Albert

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Mamet, David

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

Blake, William

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

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

Kersha, Al

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Twain, Mark

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Bach, Richard

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Zola, Emile

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rostand, Jean