Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Clarence Darrow

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

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

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

Renard, Jules

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Mark Twain

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bible

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.