Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aristotle

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

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

Blake, William

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

Balfour, Arthur James

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Voltaire

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Renard, Jules

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Zola, Emile

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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 bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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 only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean