Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kahlil Gibran

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Augustine, St.

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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)

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

Edith Sitwell

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.