Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Malcolm X

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

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Luther, Martin

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

Davies, Robertson

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Valery, Paul

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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)