Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Pascal, Blaise

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Aristotle

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Seabury, David

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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 the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Emre, Yumus

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Tom Bissell

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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

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Epictetus

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

W. Somerset Maugham