Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

10.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

14.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

15.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Gide, Andre

17.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

18.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

21.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

22.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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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

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

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

27.

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.

Brittain, Vera

28.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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.

30.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

31.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

38.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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

40.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

41.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

42.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

Kersha, Al

44.

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

45.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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