Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Clarence Darrow

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Aristotle

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Howard, Vernon

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Hesiod

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.