Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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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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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 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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Tomlin, Lily

44.

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

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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