Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Pindar

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

Clarence Darrow

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.