Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Lennon, John

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Epictetus

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Kersha, Al

10.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Edith Sitwell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Strachey, Lionel

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Blake, William

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.