Motivational Quotes

Truth

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

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

Baldwin, James

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

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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)

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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

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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