Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will

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

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

11.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

25.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Stone, W. Clement

30.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

35.

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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, 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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.