Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Low, Albert

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Jerrold, Douglas William