Motivational Quotes

Truth

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Best Quotes about Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Utterly

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Berlin, Irving

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

William Shakespeare

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.