Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Davies, Robertson

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Darrow, Clarence

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.

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

Herbert Agar

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Low, Albert

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Fuller, Thomas

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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