Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Wilder, Billy

Best Quotes about Truth

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Truman, Harry S

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

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bible

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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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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Russell, Utterly

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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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

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Twain, Mark

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

Seabury, David

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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