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

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Bach, Richard

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Bible

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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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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seabury, David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Camus, Albert

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dickens, Charles

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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)

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

William Shakespeare

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca