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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Merzel, David

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

Bible

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

Cronkite, Walter

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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 not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Butler, Samuel

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell