Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Malcolm X

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mamet, David

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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