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

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

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

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.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tomlin, Lily

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Guest, Edgar A.

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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