Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Mamet, David

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Gide, Andre

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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 is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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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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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Malcolm X

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine