Motivational Quotes

Truth

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

- Deupree, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Butler, Samuel

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

W. Somerset Maugham