Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Truman, Harry S

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Renard, Jules

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Low, 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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Bach, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham