Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Malcolm X

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

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Howard, Vernon

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

28.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Blake, William

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Kahlil Gibran

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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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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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.