Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Quesnel, Pasquier

Best Quotes about Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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)

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Luther, Martin

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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 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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Churchill, Winston

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce