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 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

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

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

Whately, Richard

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William