Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Lowell, James Russell

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Luther, Martin

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

West, Jessamyn

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Blake, William

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bach, Richard

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Baldwin, James

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cronkite, Walter

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.