Motivational Quotes

Truth

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Whately, Richard

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)

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Darrow, Clarence

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.