Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hesse, Hermann

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.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Bach, Richard

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

Valery, Paul

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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 only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.