Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Kersha, Al

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Norris, Frank

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

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

Blake, William

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

10.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Emre, Yumus

12.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Aristotle

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

21.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

48.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas