Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Brandes, George

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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