Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Clarence Darrow

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Twain, Mark

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Bible

14.

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

Mamet, David

15.

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

21.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

23.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

25.

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.

26.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

33.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

34.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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 exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Aristotle

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Scott Westerfeld

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence