Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Sontag, Susan

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

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

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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Stone, W. Clement

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon