Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

12.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pindar

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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 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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

29.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Confucius

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline