Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about 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

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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 rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Lennon, John

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

Tom Stoppard

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton