Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

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)

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Blake, William

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stone, W. Clement

10.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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