Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Pindar

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

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

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kahlil Gibran

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

11.

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

Mann, Horace

12.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

13.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

14.

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

Emre, Yumus

15.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

16.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Lee, Bruce

21.

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

Tomlin, Lily

22.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

23.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

24.

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

Scott Westerfeld

25.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

26.

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

Diderot, Denis

27.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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

32.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

33.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

34.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

37.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

43.

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

Blake, William

44.

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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

46.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel