Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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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

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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