Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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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

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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