Motivational Quotes

Truth

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Penn, William

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

Renard, Jules

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Malcolm X

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Edith Sitwell

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Low, Albert

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Emre, Yumus

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence