Motivational Quotes

Truth

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Scott Westerfeld

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Bach, Richard

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lennon, John

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epictetus

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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