Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Butler, Samuel

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Blake, William

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Herbert Agar

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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.