Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Lewis, C. S.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Lee, Bruce

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Truman, Harry S

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.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Rosten, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare