Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Blake, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Zola, Emile

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Strachey, Lionel

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