Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Truth

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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

2.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

5.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

6.

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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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

9.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Lennon, John

12.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sir Winston Churchill

17.

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

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

20.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

21.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

25.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

30.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

34.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

37.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

39.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

40.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

41.

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

West, Jessamyn

42.

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

43.

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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

45.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

46.

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

Camus, Albert

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Love truth, and pardon error.