Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Butler, Samuel

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Howard, Vernon

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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 truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Bach, Richard

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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