Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Malcolm X

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gordimer, Nadine

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

10.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

11.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

12.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Bible

14.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

15.

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

Tomlin, Lily

16.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

18.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

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

25.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

27.

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

Zola, Emile

28.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

29.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

32.

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

Aristotle

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

37.

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

38.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Rostand, Jean

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare