Motivational Quotes

Truth

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Epictetus

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Wilder, Billy

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.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

11.

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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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Blake, William

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kersha, Al

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Howard, Vernon

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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

33.

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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert