Motivational Quotes

Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Truth

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Mark Twain

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Confucius

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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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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Kersha, Al

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.