Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Best Quotes about Truth

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

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Dickens, Charles

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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Seabury, David

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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 is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

William Shakespeare

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Tom Bissell

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare