Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Bible

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Churchill, Winston

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

10.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

11.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Twain, Mark

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Mark Twain

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Camus, Albert

25.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

28.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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: 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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Russell, Utterly

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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

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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 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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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.