Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Pancoast, Mal

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Blake, William

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

Rayburn, Sam

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

34.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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