Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth alone wounds.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Cronkite, Walter

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kahlil Gibran

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Seabury, David

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Blake, William

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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