Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Pindar

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 its own reward.

Plato

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Thatcher, Margaret