Motivational Quotes

Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

- Adams, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

West, Jessamyn

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aristotle

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

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, 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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei