Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

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.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bach, Richard

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.