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

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

Berenson, Bernard

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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

Davies, Robertson

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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.

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Malcolm X

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Baldwin, James

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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.