Motivational Quotes

Truth

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Joubert, Joseph

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Kersha, Al

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Augustine, St.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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

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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mamet, David

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

Kahlil Gibran

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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 ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.