Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

West, Jessamyn

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Blake, William

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bach, Richard

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Aristotle

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

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Epictetus

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William