Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Butler, Samuel

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Rosten, Leo

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Cronkite, Walter

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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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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

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Galileo Galilei

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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

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules