Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Twain, Mark

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pancoast, Mal

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, St.

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Bach, Richard

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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 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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Twain, Mark