Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Truth

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Churchill, Winston

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Confucius

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Blake, William

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.