Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Seabury, David

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Emre, Yumus

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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 true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Malcolm X

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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.