Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Balfour, Arthur James

10.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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 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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Voltaire

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Blake, William

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Russell, Utterly