Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Confucius

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Blake, William

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

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

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

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 is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Wilder, Billy

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Seabury, David

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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.

Merzel, David

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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