Motivational Quotes

Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Blake, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Malcolm X

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Fuller, Max

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Davies, Robertson

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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