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

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

Kersha, Al

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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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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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: 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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Valery, Paul

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.