Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Renard, Jules

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kahlil Gibran

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Walters, Hellmut

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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.