Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hall, Calvin S.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Bach, Richard

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Aristotle

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Edith Sitwell

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Epictetus

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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