Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Truth

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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 reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Lennon, John

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Baldwin, James

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kahlil Gibran

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.