Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Best Quotes about Truth

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

Valery, Paul

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

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Tomlin, Lily

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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 is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Blake, William

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Aristotle

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.