Motivational Quotes

Truth

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Rosten, Leo

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Renard, Jules

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

Mark Twain

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Blake, William

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

Rogers, Will