Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Butler, Samuel

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Richards, R. Scott

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Wilder, Billy

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

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Voltaire

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln