Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Middleton, Owen C.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

11.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

25.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Granville, Joseph E.