Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Davies, Robertson

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Darrow, Clarence

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Zola, Emile

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Luther, Martin

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Norris, Frank

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul