Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Hemingway, Ernest

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Renard, Jules

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Mamet, David

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Howard, Vernon