Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

Best Quotes about Truth

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hill, Napoleon

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Mamet, David

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Emre, Yumus

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Augustine, St.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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 half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas