Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brandes, George

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bach, Richard

10.

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

Scott Westerfeld

11.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

12.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Truman, Harry S

16.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

19.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

20.

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

Malcolm X

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

25.

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

Aristotle

26.

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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

28.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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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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

31.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

32.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Aristotle

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

40.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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