Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Balfour, Arthur James

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Hesiod

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

Valery, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Blake, William

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Voltaire

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Tomlin, Lily

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark