Motivational Quotes

Truth

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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 universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Norris, Frank

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin