Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Wilder, Billy

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hesiod

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.