Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Adler, Alfred

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Twain, Mark

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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)

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bible

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Kersha, Al

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Malcolm X

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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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