Motivational Quotes

Truth

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Churchill, Winston

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Will

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Mark Twain

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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

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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 the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Blake, William

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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