Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Fuller, Thomas

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Bach, Richard

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, 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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

West, Jessamyn

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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