Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Valery, Paul

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Mamet, David

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lowell, James Russell

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Carrel, Alexis

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.