Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Confucius

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

11.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

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.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

18.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

20.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

21.

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

Epictetus

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

Seabury, David

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

25.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Mamet, David

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

Blake, William

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

35.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

49.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia