Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bach, Richard

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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 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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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Seabury, David

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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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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

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sontag, Susan

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Darrow, Clarence

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Mamet, David

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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