Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Rosten, Leo

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Hare, J. C.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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 alone wounds.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.