Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Adler, Alfred

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

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

Renard, Jules

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Blake, William

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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

Confucius

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb