Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Twain, Mark

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Bach, Richard

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.