Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hamilton, Sir William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Mamet, David

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

13.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

15.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

16.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

17.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

18.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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