Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Confucius

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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 may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Twain, Mark

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Camus, Albert

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

Blake, William

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Richards, R. Scott

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Stone, W. Clement