Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Churchill, Winston

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Camus, Albert

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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Augustine, St.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rostand, Jean

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Kersha, Al

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

Clarence Darrow

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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