Motivational Quotes

Truth

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

- Brandes, George

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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)

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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 I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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