Motivational Quotes

Truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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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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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Howard, Vernon

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Kersha, Al

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Confucius