Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bible

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.