Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Voltaire

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Herbert, Frank

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Confucius

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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