Motivational Quotes

Truth

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin