Motivational Quotes

Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Confucius

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lowell, James Russell

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Renard, Jules

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

Einstein, Albert

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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