Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

- West, Jessamyn

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Herbert, Frank

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Twain, Mark

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Malcolm X

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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.

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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