Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Darrow, Clarence

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Confucius

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

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

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