Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

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

William Shakespeare

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lennon, John

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

Bach, Richard

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

10.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Blake, William

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

22.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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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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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.

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De