Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is its own reward.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Emre, Yumus

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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

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

William Shakespeare

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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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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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert