Motivational Quotes

Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

- Prentice, George D.

Best Quotes about Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Herbert Agar

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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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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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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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 sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mamet, David

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Kersha, Al

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.