Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

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Best Quotes about Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Confucius

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Merzel, David

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Malcolm X

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Herbert, Frank

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Bible

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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.

Nin, Anais

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert