Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seabury, David

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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

12.

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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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

25.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

26.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Voltaire

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Tom Bissell

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Camus, Albert

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

Kahlil Gibran

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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