Motivational Quotes

Truth

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Best Quotes about Truth

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

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Wilder, Billy

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

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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

21.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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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

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

28.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Gide, Andre

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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