Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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.

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare