Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Balfour, Arthur James

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Emre, Yumus

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Hare, J. C.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Rogers, Will

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Norris, Frank

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Herbert, Frank

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Blake, William

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish