Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Howard, Vernon

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Dickinson, Emily

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Seabury, David

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

18.

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

Berlin, Irving

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Low, Albert

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

28.

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

Confucius

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

38.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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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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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

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Twain, Mark

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels