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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Malcolm X

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Kersha, Al

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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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

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Bach, Richard

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Berlin, Irving

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Strachey, Lionel

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Howard, Vernon

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Mamet, David

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.