Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Zola, Emile

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Lee, Bruce

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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 like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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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

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Max

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright