Motivational Quotes

Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

- Lenin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Aristotle

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Blake, William

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo