Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Russell, Utterly

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

3.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

4.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

6.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

7.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

9.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

10.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

15.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

16.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Howard, Vernon

18.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

19.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

22.

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

Cronkite, Walter

23.

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

24.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

25.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

26.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

27.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

28.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

29.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

30.

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.

31.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

32.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

33.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Lewis, C. S.

35.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

40.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Wilder, Billy

42.

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

45.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

46.

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

Herbert Agar

47.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

48.

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

49.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

50.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb