Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Bible

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Confucius

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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