Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

10.

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

11.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

13.

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

Seabury, David

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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Pindar

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Churchill, Winston

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

46.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel