Motivational Quotes

Truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

11.

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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 makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.