Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Kersha, Al

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Kahlil Gibran

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Blake, William

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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

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

Gide, Andre

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Renard, Jules

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

Blake, William

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Camus, Albert

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.