Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bach, Richard

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gide, Andre

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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.

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

Rosten, Leo

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Emre, Yumus

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Davies, Robertson

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle