Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Scott Westerfeld

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hare, J. C.

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Blake, William

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Zola, Emile

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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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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

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible