Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Lee, Bruce

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Rosten, Leo

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

12.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

13.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

14.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

17.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

19.

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

Scott Westerfeld

20.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

21.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

22.

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

Mark Twain

23.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

25.

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

26.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Bach, Richard

28.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

29.

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

Berlin, Irving

30.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

31.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

32.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

33.

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

Pancoast, Mal

34.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Augustine, St.

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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

39.

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

Confucius

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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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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

44.

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

West, Jessamyn

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell