Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

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

Fuller, Max

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 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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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly