Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Luther, Martin

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Dickens, Charles

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Twain, Mark

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

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Mann, Horace

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

Butler, Samuel

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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.

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kersha, Al

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank