Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wilder, Billy

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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)

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Rostand, Jean

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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 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 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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek