Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth alone wounds.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Mark Twain

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Howard, Vernon

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

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carrel, Alexis

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Malcolm X

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Seabury, David

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence