Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Confucius

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, Frank

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare