Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Valery, Paul

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

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

Blake, William

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

Seabury, David

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Lennon, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Camus, Albert

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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.

Locke, John

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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 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

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Joubert, Joseph

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert