Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Lincoln, Abraham

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Mamet, David

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Rogers, Will

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline