Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Darrow, Clarence

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.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Blake, William

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

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Mamet, David

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kersha, Al

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, 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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius