Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Quesnel, Pasquier

Best Quotes about Truth

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Wilder, Billy

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Russell, Utterly

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

43.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb