Motivational Quotes

Truth

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Hare, J. C.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Blake, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

12.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

13.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

14.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

15.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

17.

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

Bible

18.

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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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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Aristotle

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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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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.