Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about 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

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

West, Jessamyn

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Howard, Vernon

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Kersha, Al

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile