Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Fuller, Thomas

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Aristotle

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.