Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

11.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Renard, Jules

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Zola, Emile

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

25.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

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

Aristotle

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Blake, William

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

Whately, Richard

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

Seabury, David

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

41.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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