Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Truth

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Wilder, Billy

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

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

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

11.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Truman, Harry S

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

18.

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

Mamet, David

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

21.

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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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.

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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.

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Herbert, Frank

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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