Motivational Quotes

Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Voltaire

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Blake, William

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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