Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Tom Bissell

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Seabury, David

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.