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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lowell, James Russell

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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 does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Lennon, John

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Blake, William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.