Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Galileo Galilei

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

William Shakespeare

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Diderot, Denis

11.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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.

Walters, Hellmut

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Brandes, George

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

39.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

42.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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 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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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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.