Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Mark Twain

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

Zola, Emile

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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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.

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

Truman, Harry S

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Kersha, Al

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Howard, Vernon

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