Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Hemingway, Ernest

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Aristotle

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Mamet, David

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

Twain, Mark

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Bible

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aristotle

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Pindar

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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.