Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Davies, Robertson

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Blake, William

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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 lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Malcolm X

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

Farnham, Eliza

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Barnes, Leonard

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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 tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Voltaire