Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Einstein, Albert

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Barnes, Leonard

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

Kahlil Gibran

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

10.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

11.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Lowell, James Russell

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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