Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Stone, W. Clement

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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)

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bradley, Francis H.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Brandes, George

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann