Motivational Quotes

Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

21.

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 knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

27.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

32.

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

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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 is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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