Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seabury, David

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.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

12.

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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

14.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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