Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Pascal, Blaise

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Blake, William

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

Rostand, Jean

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Rogers, Will

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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.