Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Blake, William

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Fuller, Max

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

Twain, Mark

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Confucius

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Malcolm X

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.