Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Truth

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Clarence Darrow

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Blake, William

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Twain, Mark

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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 can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Kersha, Al

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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?