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

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Clarence Darrow

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Hare, J. C.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emre, Yumus

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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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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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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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.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln