Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Pascal, Blaise

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Howard, Vernon

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Strachey, Lionel

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.