Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Baldwin, James

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Camus, Albert

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Rosten, Leo

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lowell, James Russell

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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Benjamin, Walter

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Herbert, Frank

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Aristotle

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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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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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius