Motivational Quotes

Truth

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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

Hesiod

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Mann, Horace

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Whately, Richard

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bible

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.