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

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.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Whately, Richard

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

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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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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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

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.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.