Motivational Quotes

Truth

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Renard, Jules

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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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

11.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Blake, William

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bach, Richard

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Clarence Darrow

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish