Motivational Quotes

Truth

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Farnham, Eliza

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

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.

Real Live Preacher

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Rostand, Jean

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Wilder, Billy

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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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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

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.