Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bible

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

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

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gide, Andre

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Herbert, Frank

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't