Motivational Quotes

Truth

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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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

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Augustine, St.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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: 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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mark Twain

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Twain, Mark

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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