Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Brandes, George

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Bible

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 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

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules