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

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

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

Edith Sitwell

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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 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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Pancoast, Mal

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Fuller, Max

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Rosten, Leo

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