Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Seabury, David

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Low, Albert

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Lee, Bruce

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Davies, Robertson

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Confucius

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

35.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

41.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

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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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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.