Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

10.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Strachey, Lionel

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Kersha, Al

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

Luther, Martin

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Brandes, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

42.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Fuller, Max

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