Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Merzel, David

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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

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

Blake, William

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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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

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

Clarence Darrow

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bible

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Rogers, Will

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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