Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Malcolm X

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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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 can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Mamet, David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

35.

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

Wilder, Billy

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Adler, Alfred

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.