Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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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

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

28.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.