Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Darrow, Clarence

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hamilton, Sir William

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Rosten, Leo

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Tom Bissell

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

William Shakespeare

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Voltaire

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman