Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Granville, Joseph E.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Whately, Richard

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

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Dickens, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Sontag, Susan

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Confucius

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Richards, R. Scott

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln