Motivational Quotes

Truth

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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Best Quotes about Truth

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Birmingham, Wayne

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

11.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

13.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

14.

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

Wilder, Billy

16.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

19.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

24.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

45.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Blake, William

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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