Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Blake, William

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

12.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

13.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

14.

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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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.

17.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

21.

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)

22.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

23.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

24.

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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

28.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

29.

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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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 fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

34.

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

Tomlin, Lily

35.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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 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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

40.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Love truth, and pardon error.