Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

12.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

13.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

14.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

15.

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

16.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

17.

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

33.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

34.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

35.

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

Rogers, Will

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

37.

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

Twain, Mark

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Seabury, David

43.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pindar

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

Sontag, Susan

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.