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

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

Galileo Galilei

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Russell, Utterly

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Bible

10.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

11.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

12.

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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Herbert, Frank

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

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

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Seabury, David

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Hare, J. C.

42.

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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa