Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Truman, Harry S

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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 is its own reward.

Plato

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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