Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Confucius

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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