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

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)

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Mark Twain

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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Kersha, Al

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Epictetus

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

27.

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

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily