Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Middleton, Owen C.

Best Quotes about Truth

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Luther, Martin

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Mamet, David

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Max

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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