Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Low, Albert

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

13.

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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

19.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Rosten, Leo

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

32.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.