Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Barnes, Leonard

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon