Motivational Quotes

Truth

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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 the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Kersha, Al

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Rogers, Will

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mamet, David

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Baldwin, James

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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 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

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Rosten, Leo

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Too much truth is uncouth.