Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Tomlin, Lily

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bible

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

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

Kersha, Al

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

Voltaire

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Blake, William

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Aristotle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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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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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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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bach, Richard

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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 man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.