Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Dickens, Charles

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Farnham, Eliza

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

10.

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

Lewis, C. S.

11.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

12.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

18.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Fuller, Max

20.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

22.

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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

27.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Hall, Calvin S.