Motivational Quotes

Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Dickinson, Emily

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Rosten, Leo

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert