Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Howard, Vernon

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Augustine, St.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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

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

Mamet, David

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.