Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lee, Bruce

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

West, Jessamyn

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

10.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

11.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

12.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

16.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

17.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

20.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

21.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

25.

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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Mamet, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

36.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

37.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Russell, Utterly

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bible