Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Diderot, Denis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Max

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Valery, Paul

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aristotle

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

23.

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

Davies, Robertson

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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 lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

27.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Low, Albert

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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 half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.