Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Pancoast, Mal

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Davies, Robertson

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Barnes, Leonard

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rostand, Jean

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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.

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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.

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.