Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Herbert, Frank

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Kersha, Al

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, 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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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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

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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 is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.