Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Hesiod

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Edith Sitwell

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.