Motivational Quotes

Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Norris, Frank

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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 more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Seabury, David

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Whately, Richard

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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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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lewis, C. S.