Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Malcolm X

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Emre, Yumus

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Twain, Mark

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

Blake, William

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Edith Sitwell

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Berenson, Bernard