Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Penn, William

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

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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 we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rogers, Will

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Camus, Albert

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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 have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aristotle

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

Blake, William