Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Blake, William

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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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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.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward 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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.