Motivational Quotes

Truth

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

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

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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 guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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 is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Blake, William

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Rosten, Leo

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Emre, Yumus

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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