Motivational Quotes

Truth

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

- Anderson, Sherwood

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

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.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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)

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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 the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Sontag, Susan

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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

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Camus, Albert

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)