Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Rostand, Jean

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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 isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea