Motivational Quotes

Truth

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Renard, Jules

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Max

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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 is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Camus, Albert

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

46.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Herbert, Frank

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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