Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Voltaire

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Carrel, Alexis

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Truman, Harry S

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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