Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Truth

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

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

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hill, Napoleon

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Herbert Agar

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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 fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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