Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Augustine, St.

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

Kersha, Al

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Butler, Samuel

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Hare, J. C.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Bach, Richard

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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 is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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