Motivational Quotes

Truth

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Fuller, Max

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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 stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Howard, Vernon

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Davies, Robertson

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Blake, William

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Whately, Richard

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Lennon, John

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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 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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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