Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Best Quotes about Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

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

Mann, Horace

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Strachey, Lionel

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Bach, Richard

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Bible

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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 is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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 is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare