Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Tom Bissell

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

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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 more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truman, Harry S

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