Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lewis, C. S.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Berenson, Bernard

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Einstein, Albert

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Stone, W. Clement

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee