Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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.

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Gordimer, Nadine

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Davies, Robertson

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Low, Albert

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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

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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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

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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