Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Confucius

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Luther, Martin

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Sontag, Susan

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.