Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Blake, William

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bach, Richard

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Twain, Mark

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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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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 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