Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

10.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Davies, Robertson

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Luther, Martin

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

18.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

19.

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 is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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

27.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.