Motivational Quotes

Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Wilder, Billy

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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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 new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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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

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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