Motivational Quotes

Truth

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Best Quotes about Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Augustine, St.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Middleton, Owen C.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Truman, Harry S

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Wilder, Billy

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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.