Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Emre, Yumus

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

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Seabury, David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Kersha, Al

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Bible

22.

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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

33.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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