Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Scott Westerfeld

10.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Truman, Harry S

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Wilder, Billy

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Aristotle

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Stone, W. Clement

49.

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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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