Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

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

Russell, Utterly

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

West, Jessamyn

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Malcolm X

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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 fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Kersha, Al

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert Agar

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

Wilder, Billy

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish