Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Blake, William

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

Augustine, St.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.