Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lowell, James Russell

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.