Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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 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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard