Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Lennon, John

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Twain, Mark

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, 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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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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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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

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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