Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Cronkite, Walter

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Blake, William

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

11.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

12.

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

13.

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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

15.

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

Mamet, David

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

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

Twain, Mark

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

23.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.