Motivational Quotes

Truth

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

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

Davies, Robertson

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Twain, Mark

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Baldwin, James

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Edith Sitwell

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.