Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Truth

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Renard, Jules

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]

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hesiod

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?