Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Dickinson, Emily

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Seabury, David

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Rogers, Will

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Lennon, John

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare