Motivational Quotes

Truth

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Churchill, Winston

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Joseph F.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

11.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

12.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Kersha, Al

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

18.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

19.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

22.

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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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

25.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

29.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Luther, Martin

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

Clarence Darrow

32.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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.

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

38.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

41.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Berlin, Irving

44.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Diderot, Denis

47.

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

49.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

50.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb