Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

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

Zola, Emile

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Howard, Vernon

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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.

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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 is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Tomlin, Lily

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.