Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Fuller, Thomas

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

11.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

12.

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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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

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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

16.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Scott Westerfeld

18.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bible

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emre, Yumus

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hare, J. C.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright