Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Granville, Joseph E.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

12.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Edith Sitwell

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Truman, Harry S

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Farnham, Eliza

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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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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 always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zola, Emile

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal