Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

10.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bible

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

18.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Davies, Robertson

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

West, Jessamyn

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Berlin, Irving

41.

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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily