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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kahlil Gibran

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Churchill, Winston

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Seabury, David

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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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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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