Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Scott Westerfeld

13.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

14.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

15.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

18.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

19.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

21.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

22.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

24.

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

Sontag, Susan

25.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

30.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

31.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

32.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

33.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

34.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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.

39.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

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

Baldwin, James

41.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

46.

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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.