Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Zola, Emile

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

William Shakespeare

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.