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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Hare, J. C.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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)

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mamet, David

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Malcolm X

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Berlin, Irving

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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.

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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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma