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

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Bible

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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