Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Brandes, George

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Epictetus

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Aristotle

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

Sontag, Susan

45.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.