Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Aristotle

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

Davies, Robertson

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

24.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Rosten, Leo

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.