Motivational Quotes

Truth

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Dickinson, Emily

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Renard, Jules

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

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous