Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Truman, Harry S

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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 neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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

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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 most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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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

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles