Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Truth

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

West, Jessamyn

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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 knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Renard, Jules

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Blake, William

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.