Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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

Cronkite, Walter

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Baldwin, James

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig