Motivational Quotes

Truth

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Sir Winston Churchill

10.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

12.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

15.

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

Scott Westerfeld

16.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

17.

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

18.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

21.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

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

Twain, Mark

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

25.

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

Stone, W. Clement

26.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

29.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

30.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

31.

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

32.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

34.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

35.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

36.

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

37.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

38.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

39.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

40.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

44.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

45.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hesse, Hermann

47.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Augustine, St.