Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Best Quotes about Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Shaw, George Bernard

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Seabury, David

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Merzel, David

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Fuller, Max

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Herbert, Frank

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson