Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Truth

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Kersha, Al

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Baldwin, James

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Whately, Richard

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Wilder, Billy

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bible

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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