Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Bible

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

10.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

11.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Kersha, Al

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seabury, David

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Malcolm X

27.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

28.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Truman, Harry S

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Twain, Mark

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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