Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Truth

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Twain, Mark

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Hamilton, Sir 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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

West, Jessamyn

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas