Motivational Quotes

Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Blake, William

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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 ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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.