Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Lee, Bruce

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

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

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Herbert, Frank

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Howard, Vernon

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.