Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Blake, William

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Zola, Emile

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Baldwin, James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Blake, William

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Blake, William

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo