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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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.

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

Russell, Utterly

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Twain, Mark

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Berlin, Irving

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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

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

William Shakespeare

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Bach, Richard

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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

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

Blake, William

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Voltaire

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham