Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Fuller, Thomas

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Mamet, David

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Kersha, Al

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

Bible

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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

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone