Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Truth

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

15.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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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.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

31.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

32.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

35.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Blake, William

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Herbert Agar

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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 makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne