Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Low, Albert

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

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.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Richards, R. Scott

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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 bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Kersha, Al

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.