Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Pindar

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

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

10.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

14.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Lennon, John

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

19.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Aristotle

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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

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Twain, Mark

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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

42.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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