Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bach, Richard

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

Epictetus

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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

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

Kersha, Al

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul