Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kersha, Al

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilder, Billy

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil 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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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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 the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert