Motivational Quotes

Truth

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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Best Quotes about Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Diderot, Denis

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Malcolm X

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Mamet, David

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

29.

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

Tom Bissell

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

William Shakespeare

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.