Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

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

Rosten, Leo

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

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

West, Jessamyn

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

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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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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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Hill, Napoleon

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