Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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 makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Walters, Hellmut

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Scott Westerfeld

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Diderot, Denis

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Emre, Yumus

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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