Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Mamet, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

12.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

21.

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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Rostand, Jean

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.