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

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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 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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Bible

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Penn, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Rostand, Jean