Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Blake, William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Einstein, Albert