Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Mann, Horace

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Twain, Mark

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Bible

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

William Shakespeare

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry 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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rosten, Leo

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I am always going to be true to myself.