Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

3.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

4.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

5.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

7.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

17.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

18.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

19.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

21.

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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Norris, Frank

26.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

27.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

28.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

29.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

30.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

31.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

32.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

33.

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.

34.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

35.

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

Dickens, Charles

36.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

37.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

38.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

42.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

43.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

44.

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

Mark Twain

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

47.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

49.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.