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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Renard, Jules

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickens, Charles

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Darrow, Clarence

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

11.

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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

23.

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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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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.