Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Twain, Mark

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Seabury, David

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Goldwyn, Samuel