Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wilder, Billy

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

11.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

17.

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

Lee, Bruce

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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 can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Bible

28.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Blake, William

31.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

32.

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.

33.

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

Valery, Paul

34.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Mamet, David

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

41.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

42.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Tomlin, Lily