Motivational Quotes

Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

- Adams, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Strachey, Lionel

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

10.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Galileo Galilei

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

West, Jessamyn

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

25.

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 do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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 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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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 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 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

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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