Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Kahlil Gibran

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Aristotle

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

17.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Twain, Mark

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Confucius

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Pancoast, Mal

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Rosten, Leo

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.