Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Blake, William

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Camus, Albert

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.