Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Luther, Martin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Zola, Emile

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mark Twain

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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