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

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

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

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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)

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Seabury, David

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter