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

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

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.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Blake, William

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Max

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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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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Augustine, St.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Mamet, David

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

Einstein, Albert

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Voltaire

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Confucius