Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Howard, Vernon

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Camus, Albert

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hare, J. C.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, 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