Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Rostand, Jean

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Blake, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Voltaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gide, Andre

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.