Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Baldwin, James

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

12.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

13.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

14.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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.

18.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

20.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

21.

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

Confucius

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Kahlil Gibran

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Emre, Yumus

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mamet, David

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Truman, Harry S

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bach, Richard

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

Pilgrim, Peace