Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Confucius

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

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

Hesiod

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

Herbert, Frank

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Rosten, Leo

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Bible

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Malcolm X

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Dickinson, Emily

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Pascal, Blaise