Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Granville, Joseph E.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Hamilton, Sir William

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Voltaire

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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

Emre, Yumus

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Scott Westerfeld

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