Motivational Quotes

Truth

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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Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Blake, William

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Blake, William

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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

Adler, Alfred

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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Emre, Yumus

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Butler, Samuel

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Confucius

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.