Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hare, J. C.

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

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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 reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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 truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mamet, David

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Herbert, Frank

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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