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

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Herbert, Frank

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

12.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

13.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

14.

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

15.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

18.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

19.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

23.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

24.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Darrow, Clarence

26.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Farnham, Eliza

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

32.

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

Bible

33.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Scott Westerfeld

37.

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

Blake, William

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

Diderot, Denis

42.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

43.

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

44.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

45.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Berenson, Bernard

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord