Motivational Quotes

Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fuller, Max

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

Truman, Harry S

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

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

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.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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 is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Baldwin, James

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Low, Albert

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.