Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Penn, William

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory