Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Gordimer, Nadine

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Mamet, David

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

28.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Bible

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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