Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Luther, Martin

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Twain, Mark

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Low, Albert

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Darrow, Clarence

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

27.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb