Motivational Quotes

Truth

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Gide, Andre

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Lennon, John

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blake, William

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Baldwin, James

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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