Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Wilder, Billy

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Herbert Agar

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Aristotle

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

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

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

19.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Malcolm X

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.