Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Scott Westerfeld

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lennon, John

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Bible

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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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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Truman, Harry S

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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.