Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Epictetus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Seabury, David

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

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

Farnham, Eliza

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Luther, Martin