Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about 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

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Blake, William

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

11.

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

Tomlin, Lily

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bach, Richard

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Scott Westerfeld

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.