Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Gide, Andre

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Tom Bissell

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

West, Jessamyn

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Norris, Frank

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Blake, William

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

William Shakespeare

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Blake, William

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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