Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

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

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

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Edith Sitwell

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Blake, William

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Blake, William

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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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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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 found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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