Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Pilgrim, Peace

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Joubert, Joseph

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Malcolm X

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

Mamet, David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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)

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Herbert, Frank

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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 is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lennon, John

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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

41.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Seabury, David

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont