Motivational Quotes

Truth

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Edith Sitwell

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tom Bissell

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

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

Farnham, Eliza

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Clarence Darrow

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rosten, Leo

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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