Motivational Quotes

Truth

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Howard, Vernon

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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 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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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 is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Camus, Albert

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Davies, Robertson

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Augustine, St.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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