Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Farnham, Eliza

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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Blake, William

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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