Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Seabury, David

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Baldwin, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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.

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)