Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Gordimer, Nadine

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Strachey, Lionel

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Bach, Richard

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Blake, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Aristotle

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise