Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

- Richards, R. Scott

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Sontag, Susan

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, 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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Walters, Hellmut

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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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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Valery, Paul

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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

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Renard, Jules

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Aristotle

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.