Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Seabury, David

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Davies, Robertson

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gide, Andre

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Blake, William

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard