Motivational Quotes

Truth

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Mamet, David

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Penn, William

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Lennon, John

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Seabury, David

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret