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

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Seabury, David

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Diderot, Denis

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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 least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Confucius

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

Kersha, Al

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Blake, William

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lennon, John

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Blake, William

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin