Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Richards, R. Scott

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

12.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Max

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

Pancoast, Mal

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Renard, Jules

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Blake, William

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

Twain, Mark

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Sontag, Susan

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

48.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William