Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Bach, Richard

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

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Blake, William

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Malcolm X

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Twain, Mark

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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

Seabury, David

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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 truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Renard, Jules

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

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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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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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