Motivational Quotes

Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

- Adams, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Truth

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Twain, Mark

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

19.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Merzel, David

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Howard, Vernon

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Low, Albert

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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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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace