Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Balfour, Arthur James

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Kahlil Gibran

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa