Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Lee, Bruce

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Blake, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, St.

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Herbert Agar

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Clarence Darrow

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Malcolm X

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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