Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rostand, Jean

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Baldwin, James

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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