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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Hemingway, Ernest

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bach, Richard

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

Einstein, Albert

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mamet, David

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.