Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edith Sitwell

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Mark Twain

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kersha, Al

11.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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

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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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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aristotle

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Blake, William

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory