Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Middleton, Owen C.

Best Quotes about Truth

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Truman, Harry S

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Seabury, David

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

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

Darrow, Clarence