Motivational Quotes

Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

3.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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

5.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

6.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

7.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

8.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

9.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

11.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

12.

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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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

14.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

15.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Edith Sitwell

19.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

20.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

21.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Dickens, Charles

25.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

27.

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

Davies, Robertson

28.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

29.

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

30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

31.

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

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

35.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.