Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Blake, William

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

11.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

41.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels