Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is its own reward.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Russell, Utterly

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rogers, Will

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

14.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Scott Westerfeld

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Edith Sitwell

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Mamet, David

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Hesse, Hermann