Motivational Quotes

Truth

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Davies, Robertson

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Renard, Jules

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Brandes, George

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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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.