Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

- Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Diderot, Denis

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

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

Strachey, Lionel

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Dickens, Charles

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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace