Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Penn, William

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

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kersha, Al

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Malcolm X

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Confucius

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Twain, Mark