Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

11.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

12.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Joubert, Joseph

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

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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

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Richards, R. Scott

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

Edith Sitwell

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barnes, Leonard

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

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.