Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

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

Bible

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

William Shakespeare

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato