Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Low, Albert

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Blake, William

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Mamet, David

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Edith Sitwell

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Herbert, Frank