Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Rogers, Will

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Wilder, Billy

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Twain, Mark

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Blake, William

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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.

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Merzel, David