Motivational Quotes

Truth

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Baldwin, James

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hemingway, Ernest

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Aristotle

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Truman, Harry S

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Aristotle

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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

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

Malcolm X

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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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

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Bach, Richard

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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