Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- West, Jessamyn

Best Quotes about Truth

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Davies, Robertson

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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 determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

William Shakespeare

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.