Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Baldwin, James

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Walters, Hellmut

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Malcolm X

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Valery, Paul

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Blake, William

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

33.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.