Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Russell, Utterly

Best Quotes about Truth

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Confucius

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Malcolm X

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

10.

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

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

13.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

14.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

17.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

20.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

21.

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

Kahlil Gibran

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

24.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

25.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

30.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

31.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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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

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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 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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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.