Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Luther, Martin

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Clarence Darrow

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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 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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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 something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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 half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish