Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Tomlin, Lily

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Lowell, James Russell

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Farnham, Eliza

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Mark Twain

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Twain, Mark

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Penn, William

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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