Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Truth

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

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.

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Aristotle

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Merzel, David

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Malcolm X

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Twain, Mark

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Penn, William