Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Howard, Vernon

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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 new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Churchill, Winston

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Renard, Jules

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace