Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hesse, Hermann

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

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

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Barnes, Leonard

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

11.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

21.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Zola, Emile

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Kersha, Al

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

37.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Norris, Frank

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Bach, Richard

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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

47.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace