Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Smith, Joseph F.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seabury, David

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Bible

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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.