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

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

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Bible

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Berenson, Bernard