Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Luther, Martin

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Kersha, Al

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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

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

Brandes, George

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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)

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Twain, Mark

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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