Motivational Quotes

Truth

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

- Walters, Hellmut

Best Quotes about Truth

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Herbert Agar

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Truman, Harry S

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

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Twain, Mark

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Bach, Richard

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Epictetus

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.