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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dickinson, Emily

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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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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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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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Low, Albert

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Max

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell