Motivational Quotes

Truth

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lennon, John

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Augustine, St.

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Penn, William

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Renard, Jules

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Malcolm X

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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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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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