Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Clarence Darrow

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Renard, Jules

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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 is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Joubert, Joseph

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