Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Blake, William

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Pancoast, Mal

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Zola, Emile

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

Bible

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Aristotle

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Bismarck, Otto 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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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Mamet, David

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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

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