Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lennon, John

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Gordimer, Nadine

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Tomlin, Lily

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Seabury, David

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Renard, Jules

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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 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 tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig