Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.