Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Blake, William

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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'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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Mamet, David

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth never hurts the teller.

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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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