Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seabury, David

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mamet, David

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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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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Malcolm X

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.