Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Aristotle

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Twain, Mark

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Luther, Martin

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Malcolm X

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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.

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Barnes, Leonard

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

Merzel, David

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

Zola, Emile

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

Gide, Andre

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.