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 guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Camus, Albert

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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.

11.

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 idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Aristotle

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Brandes, George

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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.