Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Mark Twain

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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.

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

Blake, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kersha, Al

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

Twain, Mark

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Stone, W. Clement

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