Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hesiod

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Baldwin, James

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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