Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Gordimer, Nadine

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Tomlin, Lily

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Hare, J. C.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

10.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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 solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

27.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Blake, William

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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

47.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

48.

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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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin