Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

11.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

12.

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

13.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lennon, John

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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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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

18.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kersha, Al

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

32.

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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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.

Real Live Preacher

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Twain, Mark

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

Walters, Hellmut

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

40.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Truman, Harry S

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Hesse, Hermann