Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Truman, Harry S

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph 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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Bible

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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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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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.