Motivational Quotes

Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Fuller, Thomas

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

10.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

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

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Blake, William

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Seabury, David

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

40.

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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo