Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Rosten, Leo

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Renard, Jules

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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 you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

38.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Blake, William

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.