Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fuller, Max

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

Hemingway, Ernest

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Brandes, George

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Zola, Emile

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 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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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Blake, William

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

41.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

43.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Lennon, John

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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: 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.