Motivational Quotes

Truth

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

- David Shore

Best Quotes about Truth

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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 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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Valery, Paul

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

Hesse, Hermann

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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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 is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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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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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William