Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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.

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Confucius

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bible

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Hesse, Hermann

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Mamet, David

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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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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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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce