Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Churchill, Winston

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Brandes, George

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

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

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

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Scott Westerfeld

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Mamet, David

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Malcolm X

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lennon, John

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Strachey, Lionel