Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

2.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

3.

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

4.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

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.

6.

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

Voltaire

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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

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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

12.

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

Clarence Darrow

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

14.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

15.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

16.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

17.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

18.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

23.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

24.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

25.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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.

29.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

30.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

32.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

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

Malcolm X

34.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

35.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

43.

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

Strachey, Lionel

44.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

45.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

46.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

48.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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)