Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true belongs to me!

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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 few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Baldwin, James

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Zola, Emile

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

Galileo Galilei

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.