Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Twain, Mark

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Davies, Robertson

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 its own reward.

Plato

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.