Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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.

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

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Granville, Joseph E.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hare, J. C.

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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 rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Confucius

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Blake, William

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Berenson, Bernard

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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]

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