Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Lewis, C. S.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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 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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Mamet, David

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

Truman, Harry S

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Tell the truth and then run.