Motivational Quotes

Truth

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Best Quotes about Truth

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Pindar

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

17.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Herbert, Frank

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Fuller, Max

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee