Motivational Quotes

Truth

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Penn, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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.

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Butler, Samuel

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Howard, Vernon

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Herbert, Frank

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Aristotle

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

Gide, Andre

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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