Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Blake, William

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.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Mamet, David

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

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

Camus, Albert

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Scott Westerfeld

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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: 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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seabury, David

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Brandes, George

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kersha, Al

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis