Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

William Shakespeare

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Mamet, David

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Brandes, George

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Zola, Emile

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

Barnes, Leonard

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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 nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Davies, Robertson