Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rogers, Will

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Galileo Galilei

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Aristotle

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Blake, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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)

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.