Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Rostand, Jean

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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Gordimer, Nadine

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Penn, William

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

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

Bible

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

William Shakespeare

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.