Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

10.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

11.

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

13.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

14.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

20.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

30.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

36.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Augustine, St.

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar