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

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Baldwin, James

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

Herbert Agar

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

Renard, Jules

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Epictetus

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Zola, Emile

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich