Motivational Quotes

Truth

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gide, Andre

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pancoast, Mal

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Luther, Martin

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Churchill, Winston

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Blake, William

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

Blake, William

18.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

William Shakespeare

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stone, W. Clement

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Emre, Yumus

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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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly