Motivational Quotes

Truth

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Truth

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Kahlil Gibran

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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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 sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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