Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bible

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

Hare, J. C.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Luther, Martin

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Walters, Hellmut