Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Cronkite, Walter

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Mamet, David

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Malcolm X

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Renard, Jules

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

Confucius

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

25.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

28.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

46.

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

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Goldwyn, Samuel