Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

West, Jessamyn

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Clarence Darrow

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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.