Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Fuller, Thomas

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Clarence Darrow

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Mamet, David

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Blake, William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Gide, Andre

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Low, Albert