Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Truth

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Blake, William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

9.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Seabury, David

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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 not determined by majority vote.