Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Kersha, Al

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Luther, Martin

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.