Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Scott Westerfeld

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Luther, Martin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bible

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

William Shakespeare

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.