Motivational Quotes

Truth

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

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

Clarence Darrow

3.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

5.

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)

6.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

7.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

9.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

10.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

11.

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

Blake, William

13.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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

16.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

18.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

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

Seabury, David

20.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

22.

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

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

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

Mamet, David

25.

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

Valery, Paul

26.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

29.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

30.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

31.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

33.

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

34.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

37.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

41.

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

Rosten, Leo

42.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

43.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

44.

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

45.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.