Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Pindar

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Hill, Napoleon

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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.

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza