Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Best Quotes about Truth

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Scott Westerfeld

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Lennon, John

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Blake, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig