Motivational Quotes

Truth

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Mark Twain

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

5.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

6.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

9.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Herbert, Frank

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

20.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

21.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

22.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

25.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Confucius

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

Carrel, Alexis

31.

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

32.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

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

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

39.

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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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

42.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

43.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

44.

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

45.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

46.

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

47.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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See it like it is!