Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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.

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

Richards, R. Scott

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Cronkite, Walter

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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.

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Bible

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John