Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Dickinson, Emily

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Berenson, Bernard

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

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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.

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Richards, R. Scott

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Twain, Mark

18.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

19.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.