Motivational Quotes

Truth

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Aristotle

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

Penn, William

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Herbert, Frank

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Blake, William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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