Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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