Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Pindar

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Balfour, Arthur James

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

11.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Twain, Mark